1921: General Mills invented a character named Betty Crocker to convince Americans to eat more processed foods (and increase the company's stock value).

1935: Only one case of cancer had been reported in the last 50 years by the Inuit (Eskimo) people of Alaska and Canada. After they began eating processed foods, their cancer rate exploded until it equaled that of the US by the 1970's.

1938: From now until 1990, the avera ge male sperm count will drop by nearly half, and testicular cancer will triple.

1949: After being unheard of 49 years ago, the breast cancer rate is now 58 out of every 100,000 women.

1950: From now to the year 2000, the overall cancer rate will go up 55%. (Lung cancer due to smoking is only 1/4 of that.) Breast and colon cancer will go up 60%, brain cancer 80% and childhood cancer will increase 20%.

1970: Americans spend $6 billion on fast food. By 2001, that will skyrocket to $110 billion.

1971: The US Congress declares its "War on Cancer" which has done virtually nothing to stop the growing rates of cancer in the US in the next 30+ years.

- The US Department of Agriculture wrote "An Evaluation of Research in the US on Human Nutrition; Report No. 2, Benefits From Nutrition Research" which blamed the lack of nutrients in the American diet for most major health problems. That report was banned from public view for 21 years, reportedly at the insistence of the processed food industry.

1973: From now to 1991, prostate cancer will go up 126%.

1982: Teenage boys drink twice as much milk as soda. By 2002, they will be drinking twice as much soda as milk.

1990: From now to 2005, over 120,000 new processed foods will be developed to join the 320,000 processed foods already on the store shelves.

2000: Cancer is now the cause of 20 out of 100 of all deaths in the US, compared to just 3 out of 100 in 1900.

2001: Americans spend $110 billion a year on fast food. Every single day, 1 out of 4 Americans eats at least one meal in a fast food restaurant.

2005: Breast cancer, which was extremely rare back in 1900 and only affected 58 out of 100,000 women in 1949, now strikes 1 in 3 women in the US. That means that in just 55 short years, it has gone up 568 times what it was. Scary. Must be a virus, huh? Or our DNA has changed a lot, huh? Momma Mia...

History speaks for itself. If you want to be alive into your golden years and stay pain and disease-free, stay the hell away from processed foods of any kind. That includes boxed, bagged, canned or jarred foods, fast food, soda and bottled sweetened drinks.

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The same. You can do the same mistake now as you could do hundred years ago. You can do the same bad management in storage and/or quality requirements as you could… hundred years ago. For more information ask your teacher who gave you this question.

From my perspective, it could be because our children live in such a sanitary environment that the immune systems do not form defenses against bacteria, which can lead to illn…esses, or colds. Children should be allowed to -- they MUST -- get dirty and grubby.... .
Adding on to the previous answer, that assertion is backed up by studies proving that children who were exposed to dust were less likely to develop asthma and allergies to dust. But bacteria and illnesses do not cause allergies. Another reason that more children today have allergies is because they survive past infancy. A hundred years ago, a kid with a peanut allergy would have come across a peanut or two... and died. Today, a kid with a peanut allergy will come across a peanut, have an allergic reaction, go to the hospital, be given an epi-pen, and... live through it.

Not at all! We have managed to eradicate or find cures for a great many diseases that used to be very common, like diphtheria and tuberculosis. These days, many, many more pe…ople survive be sick then back then.

A lot less! Although one may think there is the same amount, referencing the law of conservation, water is a just compound of 2 Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms Being compo…und, it can be broken into its substituents during a chemical reaction, releasing this bond and causing the water to no longer be "water". Due to industrialization and global climate change, a lot more water molecules are suspended in the atmosphere (evaporation) and are more freely capable of creating and destroying their current bond status (less "water") due to surrounding reactants in the air.